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sen⋅ti⋅ment

  [sen-tuh-muhnt]
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–noun
1. an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
2. a mental feeling; emotion: a sentiment of pity.
3. refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings.
4. exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appeal to the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music.
5. a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion.
6. the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, or gestures themselves.
Origin:
1325–75; < ML sentīmentum, equiv. to L sentī(re) to feel + -mentum -ment; r. ME sentement < OF < ML, as above

Related forms:
sen⋅ti⋅ment⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See opinion. 2. See feeling. 3. Sentiment, sentimentality are terms for sensitiveness to emotional feelings. Sentiment is a sincere and refined sensibility, a tendency to be influenced by emotion rather than reason or fact: to appeal to sentiment. Sentimentality implies affected, excessive, sometimes mawkish sentiment: weak sentimentality.
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sen·ti·ment   (sěn'tə-mənt)   
n.  

  1. A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason: An anti-American sentiment swept through the country. See Synonyms at feeling, opinion.

    1. Emotion; feeling: Different forms of music convey different kinds of sentiment.

    2. Tender or romantic feeling.

    3. Maudlin emotion; sentimentality.

  3. The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression.

  4. The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.


[Middle English sentement, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, from Latin sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sentiment 
c.1374, sentement, "personal experience, one's own feeling," from O.Fr. sentement (12c.), from M.L. sentimentum "feeling, affection, opinion," from L. sentire "to feel" (see sense). Meaning "what one feels about something" (1639) and modern spelling seem to be a re-introduction from Fr. (where it was spelled sentiment by this time). A vogue word with wide application mid-18c., commonly "a thought colored by or proceeding from emotion" (1762), especially as expressed in literature or art. The 17c. sense is preserved in phrases such as my sentiments exactly.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sen·ti·ment
Pronunciation: 'sent-&-m&nt
Function: noun
1 : an attitude, thought, or judgment colored or prompted byfeeling or emotion
2 : EMOTION 2, FEELING2
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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